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PUBLISHING & MARKETING

Chairman

Shaun Wymes

Editor’s Column shaunw@atcomedia.com

President/Publisher

Brion Palmer

Colloquy bpalmer@atcomedia.com

Nina Rach

Associate Publisher

Neil Levett neil@aladltd.co.uk

Scanning the

EDITORIAL

Editor

Nina Rach drilling ? uids market nrach@atcomedia.com

Managing Editor

Audrey Leon he drilling ? uids market is driven deepwater reserves, is expected to drive aleon@atcomedia.com

T by increasing worldwide drill- the global market for drilling ? uids. The

European Editor ing activities, focused on deepwater. future is in nanotechnology, the authors

Elaine Maslin emaslin@atcomedia.com

Onshore, operators are increasing their say, which will be used to develop future

Associate Editor use of horizontal drilling in developing drilling ? uids.

Sarah Parker Musarra shale gas, CBM, and other unconven- smusarra@atcomedia.com

Web Editor

Market players tional resources. Nanotechnology is an

Anthresia McWashington emerging tool in ? uid development. Founded in 1940, M-I Swaco became part amcwashington@atcomedia.com

Several drilling ? uid market reports of Schlumberger in August 2010. It now

Contributing Editors

Meg Chesshyre have been issued recently. They all has more than 13,000 employees and

Stephen Whit? eld review factors expected to drive (or of? ces in more than 75 countries.

Alan Thorpe

Editorial Intern restrain) the global and regional drilling Schlumberger’s Patrick Schorn,

Greg App ? uids markets. President, Operations and Integration,

ART AND PRODUCTION

TechNavio released its “Global Drilling told an investor conference in December

Bonnie James

Fluids Market 2014-2018” in February. 2013 that the latest Spears survey listed

Marlin Bowman

The report forecasts that the global M-I Swaco as the market leader for drill-

CONFERENCES & EVENTS market will grow at 8%/year. One of ing ? uids. Schorn also said the company

Events Coordinator

Jennifer Granda the key factors contributing to market foresees “growth in 2014, driven by jgranda@atcomedia.com growth, they say, is increasing natural gas exploration and appraisal drilling activ-

Exhibition/Sponsorship Sales

John Lauletta exploration. A major challenge to market ity.” The company expects the demand jlauletta@atcomedia.com growth is the capital-intensive nature of for service-intensive deepwater drilling

PRINT drilling projects. to rise.

Quad Graphics, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA

The Freedonia Group in Cleveland, M-I Swaco’s 4Q 2010 revenue

EDITORIAL ADVISORS

Ohio, issued a report on oil? eld chemi- increased 4%, reaching $1.18 billion.

John Chianis,

Houston O